Mark Kelly

Those images of a robust Star Trek Captain James T. Kirk beaming around the solar system at maximum warp, or an irreverent Han Solo with his sidekick Chewbacca bustling through space on a quest to save Princess Leia, are sadly, an illusion.

The truth of the matter is that humans or any other living thing — be it a plant or a fruit fly from planet Earth — are not meant for space travel. Traveling in space is very hard on creatures, producing physiological effects similar to premature aging.

That’s one of the reasons the Stein Institute on Aging at UC San Diego brought NASA affiliate Brinda K. Rana, Ph.D., to speak to a packed audience of mostly older adults at the Garren...

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PBS is saluting astronaut Scott Kelly in timely fashion.
"A Year in Space" recounts Kelly's just-completed mission after 340 days in space. The first part of the two-part program airs at 8 p.m. Wednesday (today) on WUCF-Channel 24 locally.
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